2020 was hottest year on record, NASA scientists say
(World News Science)

Marked by record wildfires from California to Siberia, searing heat waves and relentless hurricanes, 2020 was the hottest year ever recorded, NASA scientists reported Thursday. The Earth’s average global surface temperature has risen 2.16 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century, largely due to climate change from the burning of fossil fuels, according NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Perhaps most noteworthy: The seven hottest years since 1880 when modern temperature records began all have occurred since 2014, according to NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “Whether one year is a record or not is not really that important –...